Sky, I'm not sure I entirely understand your point. My dad is, as I have said, controlling, and I never talk to him about such things because they are more than likely to upset me and anger him, and I get flustered and forget what I'm going to say and I totally forget my point. So, I have never discussed this with him other than by email, and that only once before.

Adding comments like I have are not just to passify him, but are to explain things I know he fears. The comments about the drink and drugs, I know he is afraid I am using them because he mentioned it in a previous email talking about my spending. And giving a plan for my degree is tough for me... my mind goes nlank when I think about it and I can't think of anything I would say. I'm in my first year, now, of a four-yr course.

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you might have to be the adult here, you know?

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I am not sure what you mean by this. Are you suggesting that my email is in some way juvenile? Because I have tried my best to write to him in an adult way, and explain things to him, but perhaps you can see some ways in which that is not so, eh?

Thanks for taking the time to reply, Sky. I just wish this wasn't so hard.